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Gillian Gainsley

@jylofalltrades.bsky.social
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Michigan environment & education policy leader. Ypsilanti enthusiast. Opinions mine. Former lives & forever loves: public schools, public libraries, public transit, public media

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
The richest man owns X. The second and third richest men control Google. The fourth richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. The fifth richest man owns The Washington Post. And now the sixth richest could soon take over both Paramount and Warner Bros. See the problem here?
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Netflix Backs Out of Bid for Warner Bros., Paving Way for an Ellison Takeover
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Adam Goodman @akgood.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
Ann Arbor + Ypsi friends, TheRide is seeking folks to participate in focus groups in a couple weeks. Sign up at www.surveymonkey.com/r/AAATAfocus... cc #a2council
"TheRide wants to hear from you!

Join us in-person to share your feedback on TheRide.

PARTICIPATE IN ONE OF OUR MEETINGS, TO BE HELD MARCH 3–MARCH 5.

We are looking for community members that identify with one or more of the following groups:
• Ann Arbor/Ypsilanti Community Members
• Shift Workers
• Office Workers
• High School Students
• College/University Students

Light snacks provided and participants will receive a free day pass from TheRide for their input!

If you have questions about our upcoming focus groups, please contact us at Marketing@TheRide.org

https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/AAATAfocusgroups"
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
I am regularly asked what specifically blue states and Congress should do to protect the midterm elections. Here you go, I list and explain them one by one. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/its-...
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It’s not too late for states and Congress to stop Trump from subverting the midterms
With only nine months before the midterm elections, Trump is plotting to prevent Democrats from taking control of Congress.
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Kevin J. Kircher @kevinjkircher.com · 01/02/2026
Next time someone asks you about energy and land use, maybe remind them that the ~35 million acres that currently grow corn for ethanol in the US could produce ~15 PWh per year of electricity from solar photovoltaics. That's ~3.5 times more than *total annual generation from all US power plants*.
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Senator Bernie Sanders @sanders.senate.gov · 05/02/2026
If Jeff Bezos could afford to spend $75 million on the Melania movie & $500 million for a yacht to sail off to his $55 million wedding to give his wife a $5 million ring, please don't tell me he needed to fire one-third of the Washington Post staff. Democracy dies in oligarchy.
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Gillian Gainsley @jylofalltrades.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
It’s… almost as if billionaires are intentionally buying and immediately destroying companies that served as platforms for journalists 🤔
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Isabel, booonyavirus wonk @isabelott.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Never run a gas generator indoors, don’t use a gas oven or stove to try to heat your house, and make sure you have working, battery-backed up carbon monoxide detectors on every floor of your house (but especially the one where you sleep)!
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Zach Everson @zacheverson.com · 12/01/2026
Incredible that he did this. Terrifying that he felt the need to.
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Lew Daly @lewdaly.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
Larger point: 45Q is arguably the most perverse energy subsidy from a climate pespective. Govt paying corporations to capture and store CO2, instead of actually reducing emissions, means incentivizing more extraction and combustion of fossil fuels because more emissions means more public $.
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Molly Kleinman @mollyak.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
Michiganders, both of our senators voted for the trans athlete ban this week. Please please please call them and tell them they have to vote against the ban on gender affirming care for minors that just passed the house. This bill will kill children. Slotkin: (202) 224-4822 Peters: (202) 224-6221
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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
One of my neighbors has been putting up these fish facts posters. All kinds of different fish, marine, freshwater, deep, shallow, all kinds. This is a good one. “Stg this real fish” took me out. Good work, neighbor.
A poster on 8.5 x 11 inch paper saga Fishtown fish facts: red lipped catfish or of ocephalus Darwini. Then a pic of that freaky fish with 4 limbs it rests on the ground and then the words “stg this fish real red-lipped batfish walk ocean floor with they flippers RLBF have RBF, not they fault
RLBF have a bioluminescent lure that glows to attract dinner 
RLBF lipgloss is popping, RLBF lipgloss is cool, all the fish keep jockin, they chase RLBF after school
RLBF got scales like armor and shine bright like a diamond
Red-lipped batfish will teach you how to dougie, I can promise u that.

@yaboyni
Take a moment
And and realize the moment 
You took has already passed
Thank you
See you next time
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Bony 🦴 Skeletino 💀 @notalegalrecord.net · 06/12/2025
DC Public Library with a friendly reminder 📚
DC Public Library

No Library Wrapped from us — we don't track what you read. DCPL protects your privacy.
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Joe Noonan @joenoonan.se · 27/11/2025
Happy Thanksgiving everyone!
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Ed Markey @edmarkey.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
We cannot and we will not let Trump’s anti-student, anti-family, anti-educator agenda win.
Post from the White House reading: THE TIME HAS COME TO DISMANTLE THE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION.

Accompanied by a screenshot of a Bloomberg article headline reading: Trump Takes Major Step Toward Dismantling Education Department
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Gillian Gainsley @jylofalltrades.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
My coworkers make fun of me for hating on trucks but this pretty much sums up my feelings
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Matt Ford @mford.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
Earle-Sears ran what felt like 12 billion ads about how much she hated trans kids and I didn’t hear a single pundit say she should stick to real issues that affect real people.
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Gillian Gainsley @jylofalltrades.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
You love to see it #transitwins
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Gillian Gainsley @jylofalltrades.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
Wait, Georgia **elects** their public service commissioners?!
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 01/11/2025
For the rest of the world, the single case of Mike Johnson refusing to swear in Adelita Grijalva after her special election win, because Johnson knows her vote will tip the scales for the release of the Epstein files, is enough evidence by itself that the U.S. political system is broken and lawless.
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Johnson sets record refusing to swear in Adelita Grijalva for 36 days after she won election | Arizona Mirror
Speaker Johnson sets record with 36-day Adelita Grijalva swearing in delay as lawsuit claims constitutional violations
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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 28/10/2025
Donald Trump deleted this from the government website. Let's be clear: there's funding available to cover SNAP benefits next month. Trump is stopping SNAP benefits because he wants to. He is forcing mommas and babies to go hungry.
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Gillian Gainsley @jylofalltrades.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
Bob Ross’ estate is auctioning off several original paintings to support PBS stations and I’m sitting here crying because this is the happiest,wholesomest thing in this stupid world right now 🎨🌳 apnews.com/article/bob-...
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Bob Ross paintings to be auctioned to support public TV stations after federal funding cuts
Thirty paintings by Bob Ross are set to be auctioned to support public television stations. The Bonhams auction is to begin Nov. 11 in Los Angeles with three of the paintings.
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Gillian Gainsley @jylofalltrades.bsky.social · 12/10/2025
Send a press release
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Gillian Gainsley @jylofalltrades.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
This is huge! More libraries + media outlets should be thinking about partnerships serving their shared missing of providing civic information
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Louisa @louisathelast.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
My hometown’s public radio and TV station is going to close down because of the loss of federal funding, and because Penn State won’t shell out to make up the difference. It would be a couple million dollars a year. The football coach makes $8.5 million a year.
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Gillian Gainsley @jylofalltrades.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
My kids just complained that the lyrics would not load on Spotify & were treated to a lecture about the days when you had to wait for your favorite song on the RADIO so you could hit record on a CASSETTE TAPE and write the lyrics ON PAPER only to find out you got them WRONG for YEARS
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Gillian Gainsley @jylofalltrades.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
This story combines so many of my favorite things! ☀️expanding solar 💧mitigating climate impacts 💵 taking advantage of direct pay incentives 👩🏽‍🏫 saving money on energy bills that can go into the classroom 👦🏼🦼 supporting equitable education for students with disabilities ❤️ youtu.be/EXfRhoHGumM
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Washtenaw ISD & Elective Pay
YouTube video by Michigan Infrastructure Office
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Ed Maibach @maibached.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
Every avoidable death is a tragedy. Smoke from Canada’s wildfires killed nine-year-old Carter Vigh – and 82,000 others around the world. #EndFossilFuels. @gchalliance.bsky.social @docsforclimate.bsky.social @fossilfueltreaty.bsky.social
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Smoke from Canada’s wildfires killed nine-year-old Carter Vigh – and 82,000 others around the world
Toxic particles spewed by 2023’s wildfires were even responsible for 22,000 early deaths in Europe, researchers say
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Angus Hervey @angushervey.com · 10/09/2025
Chicago River flows with health. After over a century of industrial abuse, the Chicago River is now seeing fish populations return, recreational use expand and pollution decline after multi-billion-dollar investments in sewage treatment and stormwater infrastructure. f.mtr.cool/glqllrcdlj
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Steve Middlebrook @stmdc.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
Whistleblower says DOGE kids uploaded Social Security data to an unapproved, unsecure digital cloud provider -- putting the personal information of more than 300 million people at risk. Washington Post Gift Link wapo.st/3VlquxY
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Social Security official says DOGE compromised Americans’ data
Chief Data Officer Charles Borges said sensitive data was uploaded to a digital cloud, risking the security of critical personal information for more than 300 million people.
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Dave Jones @cleanpowerdave.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
NEW: The first evidence of a solar take-off in Africa☀️✈️ x33 rise in Algeria solar panel imports in the 12 mths to June 2025, compared to previous 12 mths. x8 in Zambia x7 in Botswana x6 in Sudan x3 in each of Liberia, DRC, Benin, Angola, Ethiopia 🧵
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Gillian Gainsley @jylofalltrades.bsky.social · 23/08/2025
This soundtrack is all my 10 year old will listen to right now and tbh she is not wrong
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Joshua D. Rhodes @joshdr83.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
“The truth is that the sheep that graze on the grass that grows under the solar panels are more agriculturally productive than the dryland cotton I used to run on it!” - Allen Gully (farms over 3,000 acres on the edge of San Angelo)
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Gillian Gainsley @jylofalltrades.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
I am America. I’m a mom, a daughter, a caregiver. I’m a public servant who has spent my career serving my community and now serving the great state of Michigan. I love my family, my friends, my neighbors and my country and I believe we all deserve to have a voice and to live in safety and peace.
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Gillian Gainsley @jylofalltrades.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
Astonishing: pumped groundwater adds more to rising oceans than melting ice caps do. The Great Lakes don’t appear on this map, but even in Michigan we are starting to see limits to groundwater.
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Jesse D. Jenkins @jessedjenkins.com · 16/08/2025
US electricity prices are climbing more than twice as fast as inflation www.npr.org/2025/08/16/n... 🔌💡
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Electricity prices are climbing more than twice as fast as inflation
Electricity prices are rising more than twice as fast as overall inflation. That's especially costly during the dog days of summer when air conditioners are working hardest. In addition to hot weath...
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
I haven’t seen it illustrated like this before. Very effective messaging. Of course it actually depends a lot on how fast the vehicle’s being driven, how big the vehicle is and how it’s designed, and how small the victims (too often kids) are. Via @yegbike.bsky.social #SpeedKills #CarBloat
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Gillian Gainsley @jylofalltrades.bsky.social · 10/08/2025
My dream for every city 🏊‍♀️ I had the most fabulous lake swim yesterday and am sad i had to drive 40 minutes to do it when Ford Lake is right here
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Bentley ****TALK CLIMATE**** @bigclimate.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
🧵 Dear Republican lawmakers, Canada has the largest intact boreal forest on the planet. An increasingly hotter world due to #ClimateChange makes longer dry seasons, far larger wildfires & yes, more smoke. No amount of "raking" fixes it. The scientists warned of exactly this for a very long time /1
Map of Canada's boreal forest courtesy of Natural Resources Canada
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steven monacelli @stevanzetti.bsky.social · 09/08/2025
This is bad
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Gillian Gainsley @jylofalltrades.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
Congratulations #AnnArbor and @aadl.org on voting yes for an amazing transit-accessible downtown library and housing development!!! I first heard this proposal 10 years ago and it is so exciting that it is going to happen 🤩 Great work team #a2council
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Gillian Gainsley @jylofalltrades.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
I’m reading a fantasy novel where nations muster all their resources and unite against an existential threat to the world. There’s dragons and magic and stuff but honestly this plot point seems the least realistic.
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hilzoy @hilzoy.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
This is a really, really important story, which is why I provided a gift link. Many people, when they think of higher education, think of elite universities. But most higher education is nonselective (i.e., they admit everyone), and a lot of it is community colleges.
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jae holzman @jael.bsky.social · 02/08/2025
HUGE: The Trump administration will no longer permit any solar or wind projects on federal lands unless they produce more energy-per-acre than coal, gas or nuclear power plants. Solar and wind literally produce less energy per acre, so simply this may just kill off any project on federal lands.
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Interior Order Chokes Off Permits for Solar and Wind on Federal Lands
The department creates a seemingly impossible new permitting criteria for renewable energy.
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Gillian Gainsley @jylofalltrades.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
This seems fine, we probably don’t need any more research about *checks notes* Pandemics 🧐
michigandaily.com
UMich cancels doctoral epidemiology program admissions for 2026
The University of Michigan School of Public Health will not admit a 2025-2026 admissions cycle cohort to its PhD in Epidemiologic Sciences program.
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Gillian Gainsley @jylofalltrades.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
“They are accountable to no-one and take no responsibility for their lack of progress since 2018. Shouldn’t an organization that wants to be responsible for public space take some responsibility for their work on that public space? I think it is worth the public’s time to ask them.” #AnnArbor
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Gillian Gainsley @jylofalltrades.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
A very fine 🧵 on plants and carbon cycles! It might even leave you feeling hopeful, which I needed today
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Gillian Gainsley @jylofalltrades.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
#MDOT it’s currently accepting public comment on the active transportation plan for the “university region” (including Ann Arbor, Lansing, Monroe and everything in between) Add your thoughts by August 13 & spread the word! mdot.altago.site
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MDOT University Region
The MDOT University Region Active Transportation Plan and Bicycling Guide website is here as a resource for updates.
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Gillian Gainsley @jylofalltrades.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
EGLE’s $4.2 million in urban brownfield grants turned into 287 new homes in Michigan! We don’t just need more housing, we need urban infill housing close to existing amenities and utilities. Love this news. www.michigan.gov/egle/newsroo...
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Gillian Gainsley @jylofalltrades.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
So cool to hear @volts.wtf talk to #AnnArbor’s Missy Stults about the Sustainable Energy Utility! Love having this innovative model for municipal utilities right here in Michigan podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/v...
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Ann Arbor's experiment with a new kind of utility
Podcast Episode · Volts · 07/23/2025 · 1h 5m
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